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jmke 19th March 2008 22:20

GIGABYTE DES and ASUS EPU Tested
 
With the big focus on the environment and how much of a negative impact the 21st century society is having on it, it’s not surprising we are seeing things moving towards “green”. When we refer to green, we aren’t talking about the colour, we are taking about measures used to reduce the devastating impact we are having on the environment because of our industrialised society.

Computer companies are now starting to take the green initiative very seriously with new production methods to make them more environmentally sound. The first stages have already been implemented with the RoHS designs from GIGABYTE and ASUS, this is accomplished by moving from lead based solder to a totally lead free substitute, thus reducing the overall amount of lead required.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/13...ted/index.html

jmke 19th March 2008 22:33

Impressive differences between enabled/disabled modes. but the question is, if a system doesn't use all power phases even when under full load, why are they there? and could the cost not just be simply reduced by removing them completely? Or are the extra phases there to ensure future compatibility with more demanding CPUs?

Kougar 20th March 2008 00:22

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Originally Posted by jmke (Post 166362)
Impressive differences between enabled/disabled modes. but the question is, if a system doesn't use all power phases even when under full load, why are they there? and could the cost not just be simply reduced by removing them completely? Or are the extra phases there to ensure future compatibility with more demanding CPUs?

12 phases have always been overkill, mostly used for marketing. It's really a dual 6 phase motherboard. Besides marketing purposes, OCed 65nm quads can draw up to 200watts from my experience.

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For the DQ6 series of boards, while technically there are a total of 12 phases, GIGABYTE’s Dual Quad design uses the PWM in Parallel, meaning there are 2x six phases in total

wutske 20th March 2008 07:32

Probably just-in-case and a nice extra for overclockers ;) .

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the extra phases really would only be beneficial for overclockers


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